Physics

A new study may help answer one of the universe's biggest mysteries.

New images reveal that one of the strangest asteroids in the solar system is also the most covered in craters, after billions of years plowing through the asteroid belt like a runaway train.

Life on Earth likely began with the bubble-like membranes that surround our cells. Similar membranes probably wouldn't form on Titan, according to quantum mechanics.

For the first time, astrophysicists have detected a pattern in fast radio bursts, one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe.

Watch out for the Zee burst!

This is a radical new design compared to the world's most sensitive gravitational wave detectors.

The way the fabric of space and time swirls in a cosmic whirlpool around a dead star has confirmed yet another prediction from Einstein's theory of general relativity, a new study finds.

It's all thanks to a cliff by a river in Japan.

A collision would create a debris belt that would endanger spacecraft worldwide.

Some scientists think quantum mechanics can help explain human decision-making.

A pair of researchers presented a wild new theory in a new paper.

When two neutron stars slammed together far off in space, they created a powerful shaking in the universe — and their echoes could violate Einstein's theory of relativity.

What's making these things fly out of the frozen continent?

Scientists are searching for a ghostly neutrino particle that acts as its own antiparticle. If they find it, the discovery could resolve a cosmic conundrum: Why does matter exist at all?

It was a lot more powerful than anyone believed.

String theory is a powerful idea, unfinished and untested, but one that has persisted for decades despite inauspicious beginnings.

Researchers claim to have found serious fault with the existence of dark energy, but not everyone is buying into it.

We just might need new physics to get out of this mess.

Where did these stars come from?